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Whether you spend your days cooking, or you enjoy entertaining your guests the kitchen is always a busy space. Keeping that in mind, you want your kitchen to represent your personality while still having a timeless, authentic feel. We have put together a guide to help you create a stylish …

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 THIS IS THE 22nd in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Gil Anidjar, who teaches at Columbia University. His most recent book in English is Blood: A Critique of Christianity, published in 2014. ¤ …

Professor Lepore, whose book hardly stints on the dark side, said she was most moved by examples from the 1920s and ’30s by historians like Charles and Mary Ritter Beard and James Truslow Adams (who coined the term “American dream”). “They were all pretty significant critics of the United States …

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 NEXT TO HAVING your doctor ask you to say “aah,” having your blood examined is one of the most common diagnostic rituals. Some specific blood tests, such as that for diabetes, need just a drop from a finger stick, but broader evaluations can require a teaspoon or …

A scientific revolution is underway in the way we investigate and understand the past. The extraction and analysis of ancient DNA from human skeletal remains, the field in which David Reich is a leading researcher, is a technical advance that eclipses the advent of radiocarbon dating in the 1950s, and …

Our September pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This,” is Robert D. Kaplan’s “Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World,” a mix of road trip, memoir, history and political analysis. Become a member of the book club by joining our Facebook …

BITWISE A Life in Code By David Auerbach 304 pp. Pantheon Books. $27.95. What began as a vague apprehension — unease over the amount of time we spend on our devices, a sense that our children are growing up distracted — has, since the presidential election of 2016, transformed into …

AUGUST 16, 2018 THIS SUMMER, artist Lars Jan began rehearsals for his staging of Joan Didion’s essay “The White Album.” Like the essay, Jan’s stage work is about the nausea and swelter of 1968 — a swirl of student and worker protests, the rise of the Black Panthers, and class …

While Worley loses his left leg above the knee, his cousin is even less fortunate. A handsome, unstoppable presence in battle, Kirby, who was always ministering to the wounded — he’s someone made for the movies — groggily urinates in an empty water bottle one night merely to save himself …

Brockes, an Englishwoman living in New York and the author of a previous memoir, “She Left Me the Gun,” about her mother, is so smart and tartly charming (think “Fleabag” meets Helen Fielding) that it doesn’t much matter that you sense an obligation to make a word count as she …